Amanda Knox Discusses New Guilty Verdict On Good Morning America

Knox said she "expected so much better from the Italian justice system."

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Following an Italian court's new ruling — the court found her guilty of the 2007 murder of her then-roommate Meredith Kercher — Amanda Knox today sat down for an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Knox says she watched the verdict come through on TV yesterday with her family, and the news "hit [her] like a train." "My first reaction was, 'No, this is wrong. I'm going to do everything I can to prove that it is,'" she continued. "I felt very determined, and my family felt very determined. It was only on my way here [to the interview] that I got my first cry."

Saying she "expected so much better from the Italian justice system," Knox told Roberts she plans to fight the verdict — particularly given that an appeals court previously found her innocent. (In 2011, this ruling overturned her 2009 conviction for Kercher's murder.) "It's not right. It's not fair. And I'm going to do everything I can. Granted, I need a lot of help. I can't do this on my own," Knox said. "I really hope that people try to understand that when you have overzealous prosecutors and when you have a biased investigation and coercive interrogations, these things happen. I'm not crazy."

Knox also said she would never "willingly" return to Italy, where she's now been sentenced to 28 years in prison. The country's Supreme Court will offer its own ruling within the next 90 days, Knox said — if they uphold the guilty verdict it's possible she will be extradited, despite American double jeopardy laws, as the U.S. and Italy share an extradition treaty. (If Italy does seek her extradition, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would then approve or deny it; Knox previously told Italian newspaper La Repubblica she would become "a fugitive" if the verdict came back against her.) Asked about her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was arrested yesterday trying to leave the country, Knox said, "I know that he feels supported and respected by many people in Italy, but he is vulnerable. I don't know what I would do if they imprisoned him."